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Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 Review
 When you first pop Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 into your console, you're greeted with a nice screen that allows you to select your characters gender, appearance and weapons. It's pretty nice because of you being able to have plenty of options to work with and not having only a small variety of weapons to use.The game is great in how it's realistic, being stealthy instead of bursting in a room will guarantee your life while in some others, it'd probably be the better idea (even though if you're having a huge firefight in one room, the enemies in the next aren't alarmed at all). The ranking & leveling system is something extra special. You get a certain number of points for special sort of kills and as ranks go up, you unlock more item (along with achieving large amounts of experience to actually rank up). Vegas is an amazing game in the combat & cover systems as well as the wide variety of weapons, armor, clothing & camo styles. Your character can be truly specific to your own preferences and most likely not look the same as the next. The large amount of weapons supplied to you are a great help in all situations. Close combat? Take a shottie and an assault rifle. Aiming more for long range? There's still a choice for a sniper and an ACOG scope to go on your other guns. Now on to the story. Being someone who hasn't played the first Vegas, I didn't know the story and didn't have any expectations about the game, all I wanted was a good, stealthy shooter and I got that. Now, even though I was pleased with the actual game itself doesn't mean I wasn't disappointed with some parts. This is specifically the AI. To put it in a blunt form, the AI is stupid. I can be having the loudest firefight of a lifetime in an empty corridor with crazy echoes from the grenades & shotguns while in a room just on the other side of a standard wall there are 3 enemies chatting and not aware of what happened. So what do I do? I send my idiotic teammates to the door for a Breach & Clear which kills everyone in the room. I can't count the times on two hands and two feet that my teammates have run out into the open in a stealthy situation or have gotten stuck in a room because they're too stupid to use the door.  a screen shot of one of the levelsEven though the story is amazing by it self, the co-op, Terrorist Hunt and online play are amazing in themselves. It's always fun playing the story with a friend so you're not alone, or going in to a situation where you have to clear out 30 enemies from a complex. My one beef with the co-op mode is that the second player is basically just a hired gunman. He doesn't have the ability to control teammates or really do anything without you there. It's kind of useless in a way, why can't your teammate who is also basically a team leader order the AI around? It doesn't make much sense, especially if you're in the case where you want to go around one side and he wants to keep an eye on the AI. What will you do? Well, obviously you'll have to switch controllers unless you want to set them up and wait for his signal to open up a door/make them move (and of course, they can only follow you). Closing Comments All in all, Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 is a great game, but there are a couple of things that majorly hold it back from being anything close to perfect. I do recommend purchasing it but don't get too disappointed when you come across the flaws. Good/Bad Points + character customization system + great variety of weapons, clothing, armor, etc + good combat system and cover system + some great single player missions + nice multiplayer modes - the AI is very stupid - some missions are silly - the save system is horrible Presentation: 9.0/10.0 Graphics: 9.5/10.0 Sound: 8.5/10.0 Gameplay: 9.5/10.0 Lasting Appeal: 8.0/10.0 8.9 Great Review by ShadeSlayer |
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